cannot access cd/dvd

Charles H. Lowe Jr learstar at satx.rr.com
Tue Jan 12 23:56:36 UTC 2010


On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 20:36 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
> 2010/1/12 Steve <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com>:
> > On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:37:58 -0000, Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net> wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:38:08PM -0000, Steve wrote:
> >>> On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:03:48 -0000, Charles H. Lowe Jr
> >>> <learstar at satx.rr.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> > I just installed ubuntu 9.10 on my computer. I now have a dual boot
> >>> > system with windows being the other operating system.  I noticed after
> >>> > loading 9.10 there was no icon under computer in Places and therefore
> >>> I
> >>> > could not access my cd/dvd drive.  Device Manager showed that the
> >>> > optical drive was there and listed the spec's.
> >>> >
> >>> > What also puzzles me is that I had used the optical drive to install
> >>> > 9.10
> >>> >
> >>> > How can I access and use my cd/dvd drive?
> >>> >
> >>> Nothing shows up on the Desktop until you put some media in the drive.
> >>
> >> He said nothing about the Desktop. He referred to the GUI "Places" on
> >> the top panel.
> >>
> >
> > Nothing shows up on the Desktop or in the Places menu until you put some
> > media in the drive. :-)
> 
> Places/Computer shows my CD drive even when no media.  The OP said above:
> 
> >>> > I noticed after
> >>> > loading 9.10 there was no icon under computer in Places
> 
> Colin
> 
  Colin,  I have two machines on 9.10 and each machine had a different
source for 9.10. One machine works like yours and the one I'm on has to
have media in the drive to show up on the desktop.  I wonder how and why
the sources differ?  Thanks for the input.  Chuck





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